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Mamo TCV Advocates: Payments Insights #3 – Existing and Upcoming Strong Customer Authentication Requirements for PSPs
Payments Insights #3 –
Existing and Upcoming Strong Customer Authentication Requirements for PSPs Banking & FinanceFinTech

Payments Insights #3 –
Existing and Upcoming Strong Customer Authentication Requirements for PSPs

When the Second Payment Services Directive1 (‘PSD2’) replaced the First Payment Service Directive, the European Union (‘EU’) introduced the requirement of Strong Customer Authentication (‘SCA’). SCA enhances the security of electronic payments through additional layers of authentication with the aim to mitigate payment fraud. As we noted in the previous Payment Insight, the European Banking Authority (the ‘EBA’) opines that SCA requirements have been successful in preventing payments fraud resulting from the theft of customers’ credentials. In view of this, the upcoming amendments to the payment services regime will see the SCA requirements being enhanced in the proposed Payment Services…
Sarah Zerafa Lewis and Mario Mizzi
30th May 2024
Mamo TCV Advocates: Reporting Obligations on the Flow of Funds by Russian-Owned Entities
Sanctions 8: Reporting Obligations on the Flow of Funds by Russian-Owned Entities Corporate and M&A

Sanctions 8: Reporting Obligations on the Flow of Funds by Russian-Owned Entities

Following from the recent geopolitical developments in Ukraine, there has been a heightened interest in international sanctions. Through this series of articles, we aim to provide a general overview of the notion of sanctions, consider the local framework through which sanctions function in Malta, illustrate the general obligations which subject persons are required to observe vis-à-vis sanctions and discuss a general overview of the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia. In this eighth article, we shall consider the salient aspects of the guidance provided by the Maltese Sanctions Monitoring Board and European Commission in relation to a recently introduced…
Zachary Galea and Edmond Zammit Laferla
23rd May 2024
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European Parliament Formally Endorses New AML Package Corporate and M&A

European Parliament Formally Endorses New AML Package

As of the 24th April 2024, the European Parliament formally endorsed the upcoming Anti-Money Laundering (‘AML’) Package. This package is anticipated to standardise AML rules across the European Union ('EU'), taking into consideration various potential loopholes which could be utilised by criminals to launder funds. This new package is anticipated to also improve the way national systems within Member States are organised and to promote cooperation between them to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing. This new package will transfer all rules applicable to the private sector to a new Council Regulation (‘AML Regulation’), with the AML Directive (Directive EU…
Zachary Galea
8th May 2024
Mamo TCV Advocates: The Central Bank of Malta repeals Directive no. 18 on Moratorium on Credit Facilities with immediate effect. Find out more about this update here.
CBM Repeals Directive no. 18 on Moratorium on Credit Facilities Banking & Finance

CBM Repeals Directive no. 18 on Moratorium on Credit Facilities

The Central Bank of Malta repeals Directive no. 18 on Moratorium on Credit Facilities in Exceptional Circumstances On 3 May 2024 the Central Bank of Malta (hereunder the ‘CBM’) repealed Directive No. 18 on Moratorium on Credit Facilities in Exceptional Circumstances (hereunder the ‘Directive’). The main objective of the Directive, which had come into force on 13 April 2020, was to implement the provisions of regulation 6 of the Moratorium on Credit Facilities in Exceptional Circumstances Regulations (Subsidiary Legislation 465.40) which regulations were issued under the Public Health Act (Chapter 465 of the Laws of Malta) in order to provide…
Mamo TCV Advocates
7th May 2024
Award in the Practical Applications of Maltese Employment Law News

Award in the Practical Applications of Maltese Employment Law

Mamo TCV Advocates in collaboration with the Foundation for Human Resources Development (FHRD) will once again be organising the course entitled ‘Award in the Practical Applications of Maltese Employment Law’. This course shall consist of a number of lectures on various topics related to Maltese employment law including employment contracts, termination of employment, occupational health and safety matters, employee data processing and immigration issues. The sessions will be held between the 11th and the 20th June. Further details can be obtained through the following link: https://fhrd.org/professional-program/practical-applications-of-maltese-employment-law/
Mamo TCV Advocates
3rd May 2024
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Court of Appeal (Inferior Jurisdiction) Orders the Reinstatement of Bank Accounts Banking & Finance

Court of Appeal (Inferior Jurisdiction) Orders the Reinstatement of Bank Accounts

Bank Accounts were reinstated after Bank failed to give justified reasons for termination under AML/CFT obligations. 1. Facts of the Case APS Bank p.l.c. (hereinafter 'the Bank’) had informed a customer (hereunder ‘the Appellant’) that, after the Bank’s internal policies and procedures were revised, the Bank was no longer in a position to provide banking services to her and, that consequently, their contractual relationship was being terminated. The Appellant lodged a complaint before the Arbiter for Financial Services in Malta (hereunder ‘the Arbiter’) claiming that the Bank had terminated the banking relationship unfairly, without a valid reason and contrary to…
Sarah Zerafa Lewis
2nd May 2024